Index

1857 Uprising, 19–20, 203–205, 207

Abbas Hilmi Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, 104–5, 116, 120, 121–123 237, 240
Abd al-Aziz al-Saud, 15
Abdul Majeed Khwaja, 35, 44nn11–12, 191n27; marriage of, 228n56; letters to, 138, 141, 193–195; visits to, 183–190
Abdülmecid II, 222
Aden, 12–13, 50–51, 196, 237
Agha Mirza Beg, Sarvar ul-Mulk, 19, 185, 201; correspondence with, 33, 39, 42, 54, 87, 103, 148; legal disputes, 123; life of, 204–208; death of, 208
Akhtar un-Nisa. See Begum Sarbuland Jung
Aligarh movement, 19, 145n4, 191n27, 212–213, 218, 228n56
Allahabad, 20, 39, 56, 191n27, 201–202, 212–213, 215, 217–219, 221, 228
Allahabad Review (magazine), 213
All-India ladies Association, 218
Ameer Ali, 192n37
Amina bi, 5, 10–11, 16, 22, 50, 56, 92, 109, 116, 131, 237; travel experiences of, 43, 47, 60, 64–67, 69, 73, 75, 80, 88, 93–95, 99–101, 103–106, 132, 136; performing songs, 73; cooking, 73–74, 76, 88
Arabic: as an exclusively Muslim language, 12, 63, 194; miraculous comprehension of, 9, 122; Begum Sarbuland’s conversations in, 51–52, 55–60, 64–65, 70, 73, 94–5, 99, 101, 105, 109, 126, 128, 135, 140, 154–155, 156, 194; Hamidullah Khan’s study of, 212–213
Arafat, plain of, 116–120
Aurangabad, 226n14
Ayesha, wife of the Prophet, 21, 31, 32n5, 134n26
Ayyub al-Ansari, 14, 152–154

Begum Inam Habibullah, 17
Begum Khurshid, 18, 37–39, 42, 215, 228n56; education of, 36, 192n33, 211, 228n56; letters to, 54, 71, 171; marriage to Abdul Majeed Khwaja, 191n27; travels with, 218–219, 221
Begum Sarbuland Jung, life of, 18–21, 201–203, 207–212, 214–225; membership in Sufi orders, 14, 225; poetry by, 155, 210, reformist efforts, 218–222; proximity to nizam, 215, 221; views on race, 12–13; partition of India, effect on, 20, 223; religious devotion, 13–15
Begums of Bhopal, 16, 123, 133n6
Beirut, 99–101
Bombay, 1, 41–43, 196
Brindisi, 7, 172–173, 94, 196, 197n2, 241
burqa. See purdah

camels: travel by, 5, 109–113, 116–118, 119–120, 124, 131–132
Coates, Fanny, 36, 39, 44n16, 54
Constantinople: visit to, 146–164; shopping in, 149; mosques in, 152–153; meetings with Turkish women in, 154–157; Topkapı palace, visit to, 157–160; Dolmabahçe, visit to, 161–162; departure from, 164. See also Pera Palace
Dalail al-Khairat, 128, 134n34, 254
Damascus: visit to, 92–99; hammams in, 94–95, 99; hotels in, 93–94; religious sites in, 95–98
Daryaganj, 20, 223
Delhi Durbar of 1911, 192n36, 217
diaries. See journal keeping

Egypt, travel in, 140–144; in Alexandria, 140–144; mummies, views on, 143; departure from, 144; Hamidullah Khan’s views on, 240–242. See also Suez and Port Said
Egyptian women, 59
England, travel to: See London
evacuee property, 20, 25n40, 223

Fatima Begum, 221, 229n90
France, visit to, 181–182

Ghalib. See Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Golcha Cinema, 229n75
Great Flood of Paris, 191n19, 181
Greece: travel to, 169–172; tourism in Athens, 169–171; Corinth, 171; Patras, 172.
guidebooks for tourists, 170
Gulbarga, 14, 40–41, 226n14, 165n14

Hagia Sophia, 152
Haidar Jivan Beg, 38, 40 45n26, 226n18, 226n21, 228n57, 228n63
Haifa, 64–66, 244–245
Hajar Aswad, 9, 122
hajj pilgrimage. See Mecca
halal food, 7
Hamidia Girls School, 228n56
hammam. See Damascus
health restrictions: quarantine, 5, 24n7, 24n9, 137–140
Hejaz Railway, 5, 71–72, 74–76, 77nn20–21, 88–89, 250–254
Hizb al-Bahr, 163, 168n54
House of Commons (Britain), 185, 187
Hyderabad Supreme Court, 1, 45n26, 217–218

Imam Husain, shrine of, 97–98
imam zamin, 34, 36–41
Istanbul: See Constantinople
Italy: travel in, 172–180; Brindisi, 173; touristic visit to Rome, 173–179; Florence, 180

Jaffa, 102, 243–244
Jannat ul-Baqi cemetery, 86
Jannat ul-Mu’alla cemetery, 127–128, 134n35, 228n60
Jeddah, 5; visits to, 108–109, 132, 135–136, 221, 150; epidemics in, 139
Jesus, 66–68
Jezreel Valley Railway, 72–74, 77n20
journal keeping, 8, 16, 29, 90n5, 21, 30, 48–49, 52, 55, 61, 102–104, 106, 136–137, 213, 218; publication of private journals, 8, 10, 16, 18, 22, 220, 227; material history of, 22, poetry in, 210, 227n31
Jung, Halimullah, 5, 20, 44n5, 45n33, 116, 131, 133n15, 215, 222–223, 230n98

Khedive of Egypt. See Abbas Hilmi Pasha
Khilafat movement, 14
Khwaja Abd ul-Majid. See Abdul Majeed Khwaja
Khwaja Banda Nawaz Gesu Daraz, 14, 40, 41
Khwaja Baqi Billah: shrine of, 228, 224
Konstam, Isabelle Ida, 190, 192n37

Lady Abdul Qadir, 222, 229n93
Lady Hydari, 34, 38–40, 44n9, 83, 196
London: visit to, 183–190; departure from, 193–195; travel by underground train, 184
Lord Cromer, Evelyn Baring, 186, 192n34, 237
Louvre Museum, 182
Lyall, Sir Charles, 185, 192n32

Maharaja Kishen Pershad, prime minister of Hyderabad, 36–37, 44n20, 45n21, 226n13
Mahbubiya Girls’ School, 36, 44n9, 44n15, 185, 192n33, 210–211, 228n56
mahmal, 80, 90n5, 253–254
Mahmudullah Khan, 35, 42–43, 138, 183, 186–190, 193–196, 215
Master Ramchandra, 205
Maulana Maulvi Qiyam ud-Din Abd ul-Bari, 39, 42
Mecca, hajj pilgrimage in, 112–124; Umrah pilgrimage in, 124–127; visits to religious sites, 127–129; departure from, 130–132
Medina, 79–85; description of, 83; visit to Jannah ul-Baqi, 83; Begum Sarbuland’s longing for, 14, 29–31
Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan, 5, 6; meeting with, 161–162; gifts from, 163–164
menstruation, effect on pilgrimage, 80, 82, 130–131
Mir Mahbub Ali Khan, Nizam of Hyderabad, 18–20, 53–54, 80, 133n8, 189, 207–208, 215, 220; education of, 226n14
Mirza Abbas Beg, 205
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, 204, 225n5
Muhammad Hamidullah Khan Sarbuland Jung: life of, 212–220; education of, 212–213; marriage of, 19, 201, 214–215; travel writing, 23, 235–256; views of, 219–220; career of, 201, 215–218; death of, 219
Muhammad, Prophet, celebration of birthday of, 129–130; shrine of, 80–85; mantle (khirqa) of, 158–9, 166n22
Muhammadullah Khan, 35, 39–43, 71, 215, 217
Musi River flood, 50, 62n5, 191n18

Nawab Sarbuland Jung: See Muhammad Hamidullah Khan
Nazareth, 66–68, 246–247
niqab. See purdah

O’Dwyer, Dame Una, 39, 45n30
O’Dwyer, Michael, 45n30

Palestine, travel in, 64–74
Pera Palace Hotel, 159–161, 164
plague, 5, 137–140
Port Said, 56–59, 102–103, 194, 238–239, 243
Prince and Princess of Wales, 1, 21, 192n36; meetings with, 6, 189; invitation from, 188
purdah, 3, 16, 18, 22, 74, 104, 152, 56; Begum Sarbuland, views on, 62n3, 224–225; Begum Sarbuland’s use of burqas and niqabs, 2–3, 21, 42, 47–48, 51, 56, 59, 81–82, 98–99, 100, 105, 138, 141, 150, 163, 173, 196; forced removal of, 53; use in Hyderabad, 3; purdah parties, 17

race and racism, 9, 11–13, 53. See also Somalis
Rahil Begum Shervania, 219

Samiullah Khan, 145n4, 227nn35–38, 227n45
Saudi rule, 15, 31n2
Sayyid Ahmad Khan, 212–3, 227n36
sea mail, 53, 194, 196
Sea of Galilee, 70–73, 247–248, 250
sea travel, 43, 47–61, 101–102, 104–106, 108, 135–144, 146, 164, 172–3, 182, 193–196, 243
servants, 5, 116–120, 122–123, 125, 131–132, 133n16, 136, 161–163; women servants, 5, 43, 46n40, 51, 62n2, 109; ephemeral presence of, 10–11, 237; as Arabic tutors, 51
Shah Abd ul-Qadir, 204–205
Shah Alam II, 203
Shiism, 90n114, 129, 255–256. See also Imam zamin
Shimla, 16–17, 55, 202, 208, 219
shrine visitation, 7, 14, 37–38, 40–41, 93, 97–98, 152–153, 225, 241
Sikandar Begum, 16, 123, 133n6. See also Begums of Bhopal
Sikandar Zamani, 19, 22, 37, 205, 207
Socrates, 170
Solan, 20, 219, 224
Somalis, 12–13, 51
steamship: see sea travel
Suez, 13, 55–56, 103–104, 140, 196, 237–240
Sughra Humayun Mirza, 17, 218, 225n2, 230n97
Syrian women: bathing practices, 94–95, 99; houses of, 98–99; dress of, 95–96; freedom of, 96

tattoos, 59
Tehzib un-Niswan, 17
Thomas Cook, 6, 7, 58, 60, 62n16, 64, 92, 100, 140–1, 146, 164, 169, 172–3, 252
Tiberias, 61, 69–71, 245, 247–250
train travel, 3, 5, 40–41, 71–76, 88–89, 140,173, 180, 195, 240. See also London, visit to
travel writing, 3; by Muslim women, 3, 15–18; popularity in colonial India, 3; on the Muslim world, 13; inclusion of women and servants in, 10–11
Turkish women, 61, 154–157

Umayyad Mosque, 96–97
Ummat al-Ghani Nur al-Nisa, 17
Urdu language: use abroad, 57, 60, 109 186–188, 222; social perception of, 203–204, 206–207
Urdu literature, 16, 213, 155; women’s magazines, 16–17, 210; preservation of, 22. See also travel writing

vegetarianism, 220

Walker, Sir George Casson, 36, 44n16
women’s literacy in India, 3, 208–209

Yemen. See Aden
Yusufain shrines, 37, 45n22

Zulqadar Jung, 38, 45n27, 226n18, 226n21

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